British journalist of The Times and The Sunday Times, Max Tucker received a call from Russian state-owned TV channel Russia 24 with an offer to participate in a propaganda scheme. He recorded the call and published it on SoundCloud.

On December 31, on the eve of the New Year, president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko arrived in Mariupol together with governor of the Donetsk region Pavel Zhebrivskyi and U.S. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the third kind of sanctions against Russia. He noted that a new set of restrictions for the aggressor country is currently considered by Ukraine together with the West.

During his annual appeal to the Parliament, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the case of Crimea was effectively closed back in 1954 and 1991, and the peninsula was, is, and will be Ukrainian.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan assured President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko that Turkey didn’t change its position on supporting the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.